What to do with green tomatoes??

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We grew various types of tomato outdoors, as we don't have a greenhouse, and now it's obvious that some of them are destined never to ripen. Some of them are nice and large slicing types, others are smaller or cherries. Mostly green with a flush of orange on some.

What can I do with the things? I hate to waste them, after having nurtured them all summer. Chutney? (A very small pot! but I suppose I could bulk it out with onions.) I know about fried green tomatoes but fancy something else.

TIA.

I put some in a brown paper bag on the window sill, and they all ripened. Failing that green tomato chutney is really yummy.

Put them in a shoebox or empty drawer with a ripe banana, they will ripen in a couple of days.

I brought in all my big green ones and stuck them under my glass cheese dome and over a week they have all ripened. So much so my much longed for green tomato chutney will be a green and red version.

BTW, you don't need loads of green toms for a chutney - eg my recipe has plenty of cooking apples and shallots in too.

There was a thread in gardening recently about ripening them in a polythene bag with a ripe banana - here

Thanks, good tips! I did ripen one that had already started reddening and then fell off the stalk, but it went a bit mushy. I'll try the banana-in-a-box one, but I think I'll look for green tomato chutney recipes too.

Delia's is good.